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Robson Avenue

14 reports at 9 addresses in Avonside, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 14 separate days somebody filed something about it.

14 reports9 addresses14 days reported onfrom the air, then2 documents carry the namethe 2764th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

64 Robson Avenue, 4 reports7 Robson Avenue, 2 reports2F Robson Avenue, 2 reports7E Robson Avenue, 1 report58 Robson Avenue, 1 report57 Robson Avenue, 1 report53–59 Robson Avenue, 1 report41 Robson Avenue, 1 report29 Robson Avenue, 1 report

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Robson Avenue, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Avonside.

From the air, then

Robson Avenue from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Robson Avenue from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Robson Avenue from the air, 1975-1979
1975-1979 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. LINZ, CC BY 3.0 NZ. Each frame is cut from Environment Canterbury’s historic imagery MapServer for that decade, only where the Footprints layer names a CC BY survey (NZAM-covered spots stay out). RetroLens holds more Crown aerials →

The addresses on it

What got reported

Year by year

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 2 on the shelf; the 1 earliest:

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

The named ground

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Robson Avenue in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Robson Avenue?

In Avonside, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Robson Avenue?

14 reports at 9 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (5), roads & footpaths (2), everything else (2).

When was Robson Avenue first reported on?

2017, the record covers 14 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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